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// $Id: G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh.hh,v 1.4 2005/05/20 15:19:18 pia Exp $
// GEANT4 tag $Name: geant4-08-00 $
//
// --------------------------------------------------------------
//
// File name: G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh.hh
//
// Author: Capra Riccardo
//
// Creation date: May 2005
//
// History:
// -----------
// 02 May 2005 R. Capra 1st implementation
//
//----------------------------------------------------------------
#ifndef G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh
#define G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh
#include "G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess.hh"
// G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh
// The class implements the polarized Rayleigh process
//
// Specialization of G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess class.
// This is a preliminary implementation of the Rayleigh polarized process.
// Reference articles are:
//
// Rayleigh process: The Quantum Theory of Radiation
// W. Heitler, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford (1954)
// Scattering function: A simple model of photon transport
// D.E. Cullen, Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Res. B 101 (1995) 499-510
// Polarization of the outcoming photon: Beam test of a prototype detector array for the PoGO astronomical hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray polarimeter
// T. Mizuno et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Res. A 540 (2005) 158-168
//
class G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh : public G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess
{
public:
// Class constructor
// processName The name of the process
G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(const G4String &processName = "polarLowEnRayleigh");
// Class destructor
inline virtual ~G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(void) {}
// Calculates the new photon direction and polarization
//
// In the code the following definitions are used
// aTrack The track
// aStep The step
// The proposed changes for the photon
virtual G4VParticleChange* PostStepDoIt(const G4Track& aTrack, const G4Step& aStep);
private:
// Hides copy constructor
G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(const G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh&);
// Hides assignment operator
G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh & operator=(const G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh&);
// Generates \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$ of the scattered photon
// incomingPhotonEnergy The energy of the incoming photon
// zAtom Atomic number
// \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$
G4double GenerateCosTheta(G4double incomingPhotonEnergy, G4int zAtom) const;
// Generates \f$\phi\f$ of the scattered photon
// cosTheta \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$ of the scattered photon
// \f$\phi\f$
G4double GeneratePhi(G4double cosTheta) const;
// Generates the polarization direction \f$\beta\f$ in the plane x, y relative to the x direction
// \f$\beta\f$
G4double GeneratePolarizationAngle(void) const;
// Lower energy limit due to the available data in the physics tables
G4double intrinsicLowEnergyLimit;
// Higher energy limit due to the available data in the physics tables
G4double intrinsicHighEnergyLimit;
};
#endif /* G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh */